See if you know when these classic Feile An Phobail images were taken

It’s celebrating its 30th year in 2017 - and the hugely popular Feile an Phobail will be back in West Belfast in the August time with a packed line-up.

With that in mind, we've put together a quick photo quiz to test your Feile knowledge - make sure to let us know how you get on.

Scroll down and see if you can guess the year in all the quiz below.

As part of its 30th year, a major project is underway to chart the history of the community festival.

The research project is based at Queen’s University and has a number of outputs planned, such as an online visual archive, an audio oral history archive, a bespoke exhibition that will open later this year, and a book compiling the history of the Feile.

The Queen’s research project itself is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and is part of a collaboration between festival organisers and academics at Queen’s.

Professor Margaret Topping, who leads the research team, says that part of the project’s ambition is to provide West Belfast communities with a key role in writing the history of the festival.

She explained: “With the community’s help, we aim to produce an exhibition, a book and an online Feile History archive.

"What’s more, any photos, memorabilia and items of interest that are scanned and uploaded to our site can be tagged and described by anyone who wants to log on and help us out: We want the community’s version of history - their participation and an ethos of knowledge exchange are core to this project.”

Also working on the project, is Dr Michael Pierse, who lectures in Irish literature at Queen’s.

“Feile is extraordinary,” he said, “in terms of its capacity to develop one of the most important, dynamic and significant festivals on these islands.

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"Feile went on to become an important example of what can be achieved – not only in terms of the festival’s immediate success, but also regarding its wider implications for Irish society and working-class communities in political transition – by a committed, resilient and empowered community.

“In terms of how we understand festivals and the role of grassroots culture in neo-colonial conflicts worldwide, this is an important project.’

The project has held a number of events so far and researchers have been collecting material for the online archive, some of which can be viewed here.

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According to Dr Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh, another of the researchers on the project: “We have already gathered an extensive and illuminating wealth of material that covers a diverse and eclectic range of Feile-related development.

“We’ve gathered upwards of 45 oral history interviews which we hope to make available to the public at a later date. We will have an exhibition of what we’ve gathered to date on show during the Feile 2016 public exhibitions in St Mary’s University College as part of a build-up to a larger exhibition in 2017.”

All those involved are encouraging anyone with material relating the the history of the festival - posters, memorabilia, photographs and items of interest - to get in touch.

You can contact the researchers through their website, available by clicking here.